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List(s) of Obsidian Commands

EDIT: A newer and better version is down in post #37!

I needed a list of currently enabled Obsidian Commands (those in the Command Palette, internal plus plugins). So I thought »Why not do it using Obsidian itself (and Dataview)?«

Commands sorted by internal Command ID


const getNestedObject = (nestedObj, pathArr) => {
    return pathArr.reduce((obj, key) =>
        (obj && obj[key] !== 'undefined') ? obj[key] : undefined, nestedObj);
}

function getHotkey(arr) {
    return arr.hotkeys ? [[getNestedObject(arr.hotkeys, [0, 'modifiers'])],
    [getNestedObject(arr.hotkeys, [0, 'key'])]].flat(2).join('+').replace('Mod', 'Ctrl') : '–';
}

let cmds = dv.array(Object.entries(app.commands.commands))
    .sort(v => v[1].id, 'asc');

dv.paragraph(cmds.length + " commands currently enabled.<br><br>");

dv.table(["Command ID", "Name in current locale", "Hotkeys"],
  cmds.map(v => [
    v[1].id,
    v[1].name,
    getHotkey(v[1]),
    ])
  );

Result:

obsidian-dataview-command-list-by-id
obsidian-dataview-command-list-by-id792×820 69.2 KB

Commands sorted by assigned hotkey

This I missed the most. Just to check if a planned hotkey combo is already taken …


const getNestedObject = (nestedObj, pathArr) => {
    return pathArr.reduce((obj, key) =>
        (obj && obj[key] !== 'undefined') ? obj[key] : undefined, nestedObj);
}

function getHotkey(arr) {
    return arr.hotkeys ? [[getNestedObject(arr.hotkeys, [0, 'modifiers'])],
    [getNestedObject(arr.hotkeys, [0, 'key'])]].flat(2).join('+').replace('Mod', 'Ctrl') : '–';
}

let cmds = dv.array(Object.entries(app.commands.commands))
    .where(v => getHotkey(v[1]) != '–')
    .sort(v => v[1].id, 'asc')
    .sort(v => getHotkey(v[1]), 'asc');

dv.paragraph(cmds.length + " commands with assigned hotkeys.<br><br>");

dv.table(["Command ID", "Name in current locale", "Hotkeys"],
  cmds.map(v => [
    v[1].id,
    v[1].name,
    getHotkey(v[1]),
    ])
  );

Result:

obsidian-dataview-command-list-by-hotkey
obsidian-dataview-command-list-by-hotkey789×822 76.5 KB

Notes

I’m on Linux and this is good enough for me. I leave remapping MacOS keys and/or adding nice <kbd>…</kbd> tags around the keys (but not the plus signs in between!) as an exercise for the reader. :wink:

Anyway, it’s a good check what we have, and could well be a starting point for the Buttons and Obsidian Leaflet plugins to maybe invoke commands language-independently, using their ID. Because now we know it an can make a list!

(Bi- and multilingual people switch Obsidian’s language often, and it sucks that commands called up by their (locale-specific!) name suddenly stop working.)

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